Magazine: Fall 2011 | Volume 18, No. 1

Your brain is a wonderful and powerful thing—it is intricately involved with everything you do and everything
that makes you who you are. As the interests of computer scientists gravitate
toward the brain, entirely new questions emerge. Can we monitor
the brain while writing a paper, playing a game, or performing a
musical piece? Can we study how the brain learns and use it to
influence and improve our own algorithms? Can we create computer
applications that are attentive to our situational cognitive
needs?